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Sunday, August 29, 2010
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Rundown run boosts Indians
August 29, 2010 in Sports Jurickson Profar hit the ball all around Avista Stadium on Sunday night, but his biggest play came while making an inning-ending out in the eighth. Profar stayed in a rundown …
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Moore, French help M’s avoid sweep
August 29, 2010 in Sports SEATTLE – The Seattle Mariners had waited nearly three games for the big hit that would make the difference between losing and winning. What Adam Moore delivered in the seventh …
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Chiefs show off their aged
August 29, 2010 in Sports Fittingly it was the veterans’ day at the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena Sunday afternoon when the first weekend of the Spokane Chiefs’ training camp ended with the Western Hockey League …
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Athol man dead following motorcycle crash
August 29, 2010 in News, Idaho An Athol man died Saturday night after crashing his motorcycle on U.S. Highway 95 in southern Bonner County. 2
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Three killed in Spokane County car crash
August 29, 2010 in News Three men were killed when a BMW traveling at least 90 mph in a 25-mph zone left the road and smashed into two pine trees, the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office …
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Firefighters find one dead in early morning blaze
August 29, 2010 in News, City The cause of an early morning fire that led to the discovery of a man’s remains in a northeast Spokane home is under investigation. 2
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Post-Katrina Big Easy has other storms to weather
August 29, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 NEW ORLEANS – Tim Williamson was asked this month to assess the state of his native New Orleans after the disaster. “After the disaster?” the nonprofit CEO quipped, with a …
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Restore country’s values, Beck rally told
August 29, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – A sea of people rallied at the hallowed site of the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday as conservative commentator Glenn Beck and other heroes of the tea party movement … 14
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Bishop Cupich, well-liked in South Dakota, seen as polished, pragmatic
August 29, 2010 in City on Page A1 RAPID CITY, S.D. – The Toyota parked out back of Rapid City’s Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help is a drab little sedan, splattered with grasshoppers, moths and other … 1
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Climate center: Northeast residents really did swelter
August 29, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A2 ALBANY, N.Y. – New numbers confirm what the sweaty brows of Northeasterners have been saying for months: The summer of 2010 was a record-breaking scorcher. Preliminary figures provided by the …
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Senate races set in W. Virginia, Louisiana
August 29, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Popular Gov. Joe Manchin won the Democratic nomination Saturday and will face GOP primary winner and wealthy businessman John Raese in the race to fill the Senate …
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Health care funding provision could be cut
August 29, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Five months after the adoption of the sweeping new health care law, momentum is building to modify and possibly repeal one of its funding sources. The sums in …
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Top Karzai aide insists U.S. must alter strategy
August 29, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s chief of staff said Saturday that he is not sure the government is “on a path to success” in securing the country against …
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Iraqi forces prepare for terrorist attacks
August 29, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 BAGHDAD – Iraq’s prime minister put his nation on its highest level of alert for terror attacks, warning of plots to sow fear and chaos as the U.S. combat mission …
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Putin launches work on spaceport
August 29, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 MOSCOW – Russia will launch its manned space missions from a new center in the Far East in 2018, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Saturday, as the country seeks greater …
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In Passing
August 29, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A5 William Saxbe, former attorney general Columbus, Ohio – William Saxbe, a Republican maverick who became the fourth attorney general to serve under President Richard M. Nixon and presided during the …
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‘Vapor trail’ leads to Hilton’s arrest
August 29, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A5 LAS VEGAS – Smoke wafting from a Cadillac Escalade on the Las Vegas Strip set off Paris Hilton’s latest legal troubles when a motorcycle officer who suspected the smell was … 2
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Casket for Katrina elicits applause from mourners
August 29, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A7 CHALMETTE, La. – Hundreds of mourners dropped notes, cards and letters – many of them stained with tears – into a steel-gray casket on Saturday in a symbolic burial of … 1
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Race for Idaho schools chief puts focus on role of office
August 29, 2010 in Idaho on Page B1 BOISE – The first non-educator to head Idaho’s public school system is running for re-election, and he’s being challenged by one of the state’s most respected educators: the just-retired superintendent … 1
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Doug Clark: A song to help you love your Klan man
August 29, 2010 in City on Page B1 Brace yourselves today for “Stand by your Klan,” yet another parody song based on the real-life saga of one of our over-the-top newsmakers. Edgar J. Steele, to be precise. 4
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In brief: Deer Park man killed in Highway 2 crash
August 29, 2010 in City on Page B1 A 29-year-old Deer Park man died after his car crossed the centerline of U.S. Highway 2 and collided head-on with another car shortly after noon Saturday. Jason Robert McDowell was … 1
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Lower bail for crime suspects hurts bond businesses
August 29, 2010 in City on Page B1 Getting out of jail in Spokane County is getting cheaper. After years of inmate overcrowding and a push by the county to streamline the judicial system, prosecutors, defense lawyers and … 13
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Jim Kershner’s This day in history
August 29, 2010 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago Two local auto daredevils in a Buick racer (Model 18) made a wild and perilous run from Spokane to Coeur d’Alene and back in … 1
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BLM seeks independent review of wild horse program
August 29, 2010 in City on Page B2 RENO, Nev. – At the urging of a bipartisan group of House members, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is asking for an independent review of its wild horse and …

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